Art Across the Park – exhibition at Central Park New York City (1982)

Shortly after completing his residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Jorge Luis was invited, along with fourteen other artists, to design artwork that would be installed throughout Central Park in Manhattan. David Hammons had conceived “Art Across the Park” in 1979 with the purpose of presenting site-specific artwork by young and emerging artists in public parks throughout New York City. Curators Horace Brockington and Gylbert Coker organized the project as a non-profit institution under the umbrella of El Museo del Barrio for its first run in 1980. It was then merged with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council until the project’s end in 1984. Site-specific art had been a growing artistic movement beginning in the mid to late 1960s. Unlike the modernist trend that preceded it, site-specific art is created with location in mind. Loops is a series of painted aluminum pipes which are meant to create the illusion of a continuous line that runs below and above the earth. The artist chose the color red to accentuate its contrast with the green landscape.